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Radio Valencia has been on the air for a year now, carrying our Sound Of Plaid show as well as 43 others. With the unexpected closure of KUSF, Radio Valencia is one of the few remaining sources of independent and adventurous music to be heard on the San Francisco FM dial.

They've got a great thing going and want to make it even better, with a sorely needed new mixing board and some better equipment all around. Enter Chicken John, a "born showman" (his words) and a person with a scheme for every situation. His idea: a Radio Dinner Theatre with 5 courses and 5 radio performances. The food will be good, the performances will be even better, and your $40 will benefit a radio station that deserves that and more!

ECC will participate with a tribute to Dr. Demento who just celebrated his 70th birthday earlier this week, but whose radio show left the radio waves after 35 years only this January. Space and food is VERY limited, so buy your tickets in advance!

We’ll also have great raffle prizes, Radio Valencia stickers, and I’m sure more than a couple surprises–just like our radio shows. Not only will you see our clever performances and interpretations of some of the most important moments in the history of radio, you will also help the future of great radio, because all the proceeds will go to helping Radio Valencia buy a brand new mixing board so we can produce our shows more professionally and generally sound more awesome.

If you want the vegetarian/vegan option, you just need to let us know, so that the chef makes the right amount.

We also have some things that were donated to us that we will auction off, so bring money! Fine coffee, an oil change, a day spa certificate, mixed CD’s, etc.

Here are details on all the acts:

The show consists of re-enactments and hosted re-broadcasts of great moments in the history of radio. Here are some of the details:

DJ Timmy is going to talk about and play one of the great Fireside Story episodes that FDR did during WWII. If you have never heard this, you will be delighted. It’s nothing short of the most wholesome thing that ever happened.

DJ mikl-em (of the CanHazDJ show) takes you back to the golden era of radio comedy with a live performance of the Marx Brothers original radio show “Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel”. This fast-paced comedy features Groucho and
Chico (Harpo may be there, too, but he doesn’t have any lines) in an episode first broadcast in 1933. A stellar cast featuring members of theChicken Scratch Improv will bring a nearly 80 year-old comedy back to hilarious life before your very eyes.

Sean Kelly (aka Freakatronic) will debut a new act honoring the History of Radio.
HEAR: ‘O Holy Night’ an antique rendition of broadcasts’s first song on radio.
SEE: Sean Kelly do a burlesque style Balloon Dance with a stun gun.
JUMP: to the pop of the balloons.
TASTE: The delicious food being served to raise funds for a new mixing board.
WONDER: Where he got a stun gun.

DENNIS THE MENACE: WHEN TOP 40 RADIO RULED THE EARTH!DTM attributes his 35 year radio career to the some of the most talented and creative DJ’s on earth who he had the rare opportunity to learn from! At the age of 13, he snuck past the guards on 6th Avenue in New York City to watch his D.J. Idols broadcast on 77 WABC. Soon after, he auditioned and was given Top 25 countdown show on a suburban radio station. Since then he’s broadcast on the legendary Top 40 KISS-108 Boston and other stations before bringing his syndicated shows to Radio Valencia! Tonight, he regales us with tales, pictures, and rare airchecks that only scratch the surface of his passion for this long gone radio format.

From the Nose Hair Lint Gland gang: a satirical re-enactment of the famous 1937 radio broadcast of the Hindenberg disaster. Delivered in the voice of 1937 radio reporter Herbert Morrison. Everything will go perfectly with this because it always always does.

And finally, DJ Extra Kate [of the Place Tales show] is doing to do a
short symposium on the War of the Worlds broadcast from 1938, in which America thought it was an actual invasion and there was panic in the streets, looting and mass hysteria! She will then play some of it for your amusement!